Joe4Wheels

I don’t live a life most would consider normal. I can’t move much except to drive my chair or talk. That being said, I’m always going somewhere and you can’t shut me up. I live, not suffer, with a disability called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It’s a genetic disorder that causes my muscles to damage and die quicker than they grow and repair. Though I can’t really grow muscles either. Believe it or not I was walking until I was 9. The muscles responsible for walking went away

The world just sees I’m disabled,  I choose to live fully enabled. People try to limit me through labels, But to me these are nothing but fables. When it comes to my soul only I have possession, Because my independence is my obsession. I see the world through the windows of oppression, But I have too much pride to cause me depression. I use words to fight ignorance like a weapon, I destroy the unconscious with the blade of expression. I choose to live fully enabled, Try to st

I may be stationary  But I'm always moving. Stagnation scares my soul  So forward i must go. Never satisfied with my past story  Just obsessed with future glory. I've vanquished demons Some external  Others of my making. Some stalk me in darkness  They wait for my light to dim Sometimes the battle they win. But never the war Down i may be  But down I never stay. I've been dragged to despair by the devil And saved by angels among us. I share a piece of my heart  To every soul